Our visions of the future have always been more complex than hoverboards and self-lacing sneakers. Sure, there were the various tropes from many bad sci-fi movies (and a few good ones), such as food in pill form, flying cars, personal jetpacks and ro...

Online empires come and go. At one time, Alta Vista was the top search engine and Netscape was the only web browser. Both are now gone. Will the same happen to Facebook? It's unlikely the company could completely exit the stage. However, the Facebook...

If there's one job market that isn't slowing down, it's tech. As legacy companies continue to digitize and exciting new startups pop up everywhere, we're encountering an increased demand for qualified tech professionals. According to a recent survey ...

Major innovations and tech sea-changes were few and far between in 2013. Unfortunately, what usually follows major advancements are refinements. These days, innovation tends to happen on a nano-scale, which means most people cannot see or experience ...

Apple and its eponymous logo lost some luster in 2013. Experts questioned the company’s ability to innovate. Others pointed to the plummeting stock price as an indicator the good times are done. Yet, the year ends on a high note. Apple's stock price ...

Could Apple be bringing a bit of bling to its next generation of iPhones? According to the Japanese publication Macotakara, a gold smartphone may indeed be in the cards for Apple, which is expected to launch a revamped iPhone handset later this year ...

Have you ever wondered what the future of humanity holds? We know you have, we do it all the time here at Mashable. And frankly, looking ahead is pretty much an integral part of human nature. Our friends at Information Is Beautiful Studio have compil...

Update: Because of technical issues on our end, the Google+ Hangout closed in the middle of the live chat. We apologize for the inconvenience. What a year 2012 has been for technology: Samsung became a dominant force in the smartphone industry, the i...

The 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will be broadcast tonight (Sunday, Sept. 23) at 7 p.m. ET on ABC, and if you're like us, you're probably wondering who's going to win. You can guess who might be taking home the Emmy hardware tonight, bu...

Do you daydream about the future? We thought so. But rather than bore you with our frivolous wish lists (which are mostly comprised of hoverboards and self-lacing shoes), we have asked nine leading futurists to share their visions of the digital worl...

There's one thing you should know before we open up this can of worms: I have 795 pins on Pinterest. Probably by the end of writing this article, I'll have 895. As you can see, my wish list of Pinterest features hasn't caused me to slam down my lapto...

Jonathan Gardner is director of communications at ad company Vibrant Media. He has spent his career as an innovator at the nexus of media and technology, having worked in communications leadership roles and as a journalist around the world. Digital m...

Community management, an industry still in its infancy, came a long way in 2011. Many businesses no longer ask "What does a community manager do, and do I need one?" but rather "What makes a great community manager, and when can I hire one?" The role...

Erik Loehfelm is the executive director of user experience at Universal Mind, where he leads the design team in developing new, immersive app experiences for a variety of devices. He is also a leading voice in the digital publishing industry. Follow ...

Matthias Galica is CEO of ShareSquare, the leading platform among brand and entertainment marketers for incentivizing offline-to-online consumer engagement. As new technologies emerge that seek to bridge the real world with the digital, the offline-t...

Josh Jones-Dilworth is the founder and CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc., a public relations consultancy focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market. In the spirit of the new year, I've determined my online data predictions for 2012. And because...

It's hard to believe all that came out of the tech world in the year 2011. From drastic changes in social media trends to unexpected company acquisitions -- both startups and major corporations -- it goes without saying that it has been a banner year...

Over the course of 2011, we witnessed social media and location-based services really take off for small businesses -- the mom and pop shops of the world continued to get more digital and more mobile. As this year wraps up, we look back at the techno...

Who will take home the hardware tonight at the Oscars 2011 awards ceremony? Here's another perspective, leveraging the power of social media to find out which actors and films were talked about most, this time in an infographic created by the Meltwat...

The past year was an eventful one for the world of social networking. Facebook went on an acquisition spree. Twitter started growing up. And MySpace? Well it's the same old story over there. In 2010, we predicted that Facebook would conquer the web. ...

As a class, developers have had a fantastic year in 2010. We've made headlines, grabbed the limelight, been vilified and glorified beyond all reason and gotten paid pretty nicely along the way. And the bubble of consumer web apps just continues to sw...

Mobile really exploded in 2010, thanks to a surge in smartphone sales, the rise of the iPad, and of course the iPhone. Mobile devices are getting more powerful, data connections are getting faster and developers are really pushing the boundaries of h...

In many ways, 2010 was finally the year of mobile for news media, and especially so if you consider the iPad a mobile device. Many news organizations like The Washington Post and CNN included heavy social media integrations into their apps, opening t...

Gabe Zichermann is the author of the critically acclaimed book Game-Based Marketing (Wiley, 2010), the upcoming Gamification by Design (O’Reilly, 2011) and blogs at Gamification.co. He’s also the chair of the January Gamification Summit in San Franci...

Happy Friday, people! Along with the venerable tradition of Follow Friday, today also marks this week's edition of the Friday Poll. Last week we wanted to know if location checkin services freak you out in terms of privacy concerns. Reactions were pr...

Facebook has been around for more than five years, but it hit critical mass and exploded in 2009. As the new decade begins, the fallout is blowing over the entire web. Facebook Connect is everywhere, in case you hadn't heard. We're talking 60 million...

Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org, an online media network for social change. 2009 saw a proliferation of online charity events, competitions, and “friendraisers” that spilled across Twitter and Facebook and filled email inboxes everyw...

Josh Jones-Dilworth is the Founder and CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc. a PR consultancy focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market. He blogs at joshdilworth.com. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." – Mark Twain...

This post is part of Mashable's Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous Uni...

It’s that time of year: predictions for the fresh 365 days that we get when the calendar flips over. In our world, that means opining about the future of the Web, technology, and social media. Mashable’s Pete Cashmore recently made a slew of predicti...

Alex Castro is the CEO and co-founder of Delve Networks, a complete end-to-end online video platform providing all the tools needed to publish Internet TV channels and online video. Online video has evolved rapidly over the past few years. From the i...

UPDATE: We have 500 Nostradamical invites for Mashable readers. Visit the site and use the code MASHABLE to get access. Nostradamical, a UK startup that's currently in private beta, is ironically a little late with its Ruby on Rails-powered, "crowdso...

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Web of Fate 20-word Description: Web of Fate is a semantic analysis engine that...

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